When I look back, I don't remember the best of the best. I don't remember arena shows with 20,000 people. I remember funky little bar gigs where nobody shows up. The weirdest of the weird are what you retain.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.